Improve You Building Department (Florida)

Mission Statement

Our mission is to help county building departments enhance the quality of life of its county's residents by providing their department's building inspectors with near-limitless education to help them do their important work better and safer.

Each inspector receives:

1. Unlimited access to dozens of ICC®-approved online inspection courses.
2. Access to online courses from an accredited College that make them a better inspector, including:
   
   
   • Florida Residential Building Code Course
   • Pre-Drywall Inspection 
   • Building Code Inspector 
   • Safe Practices for the Building Inspector 
   • Inspecting the Attic, Insulation, Ventilation & Interior 
   • Inspecting HVAC Systems 
   • Advanced Inspection of HVAC Systems
   • Inspecting Commercial HVAC Systems 
   • Inspecting HVAC Energy Efficiency for Building Inspectors 
   • Inspecting the Exterior
   • Inspecting Decks 
   • Inspecting Decks (video course)
   • Performing Residential Electrical Inspections
   • Performing Commercial Electrical Inspections 
   • Advanced Electrical Inspections
   • Inspecting Roofs 
   • Inspecting Roofs (video course)
   • Advanced Inspections of Roofs 
   • Inspecting Asphalt Shingle Roofs 
   • Inspecting Slate Roofs 
   • Inspecting Metal Roofs 
   • Inspecting Tile Roofs 
   • Inspecting Wood Shingle and Shake Roofs 
   • Stucco & EIFS Inspection Training for Inspectors 
   • Residential Plumbing Overview for Building Inspectors 
   • The House as a System 
   • Professionalism and Communication for Building Inspectors 
   • Inspection of Crawlspaces Safely 
   • Inspecting Masonry Chimney Flashing 
   • Inspecting Garages 
   • Inspecting Manufactured and Mobile Homes 
   • Inspecting Portable Fire Extinguishers 
   • Lead-Safe Work Practices for Building Inspectors
   • Understanding Residential Structural Design for Building Inspectors 
   • Defect and Code Violation Recognition 
   • Safety for Building Inspectors 
   • Meth House Hazards for Building Inspectors 
   • Inspecting the Means of Egress 
   • Ladder Safety Training for Building Inspectors 
3. Certificates of Completion for every course completed by the building inspector.
4. Official education transcript available online that displays every course completed by the building inspector.
5. Exam Preparation:
   • Virtual Inspection Defect Flashcards
   • Advanced Residential Code Inspection online exam prep
   • Advanced Commercial Property Inspection online exam prep
   • International Residential Code® (IRC®) online exam prep 
6. Virtually endless miscellaneous benefits, including: 
   • Access to the House of Horrors® inspector training facilities, which are homes with a thousand code violations purposely built in.
   • Free photo message board to discuss issues with more than 100,000 other building inspectors who have registered to use the forum.  It currently has 2.9 million posts by fellow building inspectors.
   • Emergency online help while you're on-site.
   • The Inspection Image Gallery, which is a library of visual code violations.
   • Webinars for building inspectors. 
   • Podcasts for building inspectors.
   • Inspection-related Articles Library with hundreds of articles for building inspectors.
   • Literally hundreds of other benefits for building inspectors.

Accreditations

Our online courses are our nation's most accredited inspection courses.  They are college-level and accredited by the U.S. Department of Education, along with dozens of other organizations and agencies, including:

• Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET)
• American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST)
• American Council for Accredited Certification (ACAC)
• U.S. Army
• Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO)
• Building Performance Institute (BPI)
• Canada's National Association of Career Colleges
• Certified Commercial Property Inspectors Association (CCPIA®)
• Chimney Safety Institute of America (CSIA)
• Contractors Association
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
• Department of Veterans Affairs G.I. Bill
• ENERGY STAR
• EPA Indoor airPlus
• Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board (BCAIB)
• Florida Construction Industries Licensing Board (CILB)
• Florida DBPR Mold-Related Services
• Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR)
  
• Florida Department of Education Division of Rehabilitation
• Florida Department of Financial Services
  
• Florida Department of Health, Radon Division
• Florida Electrical Contractors Licensing Board
• Florida My Safe Home Program
• InterNACHI® Advisory Council (since 2015)
• International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants (IAC2)
• International Code Council® (ICC®)
• Master Inspector Certification Board (CMI®)
• Mountain Metro Association of REALTORs
• National Association of Career Colleges
• National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)
• National Organization of Alternative Housing (NOAH)
• National Radon Proficiency Program (NRPP)
• National Radon Safety Board (NRSB)
• National Wildlife Control Operators Association (NWCOA)
• SUNachi
• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings Residential Network (training provider)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Cost

All-Access membership is $499 per year for the first building department inspector and only $100 per year for each additional inspector.

Give your building department all access membership by contacting Lisa Endza at:

Lisa Endza
(303) 223-0861
fast-reply@internachi.org 

Is your building department in another state?  Go here:  www.nachi.org/ahj-us